Amazon's New Fire Could Basically Burn Down Brick-and-Mortar Retail Stores: "The Fire Phone includes an app called Firefly that helps users identify things they point their cameras at... If it's an item Amazon sells, Firefly will let you click to buy it... This should terrify brick and mortar retailers. They have long worried about 'showrooming,' the practice where customers will find a product in a physical store... but then order it from Amazon where the price is lower...But Firefly promises to make the process effortless."

Amazon Is Still Screwing Over Authors, Including J. K. Rowling: "Try pointing the Amazon Fire phone at J.K. Rowling's new novel The Silkworm, and see what happens."

American Apparel Fires Its Chief Executive: This guy has been making headlines for years, and the board of directors has had it. So what did he do? No one's talking. The "alleged problems did not appear to be criminal in nature but involved his personal conduct with women and poor judgment," said a source," to the Los Angeles Times.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Asks for His Trial in Boston Marathon Bombing to Be Moved Out of State: Because of what his lawyers call "an overwhelming presumption of guilt in the District of Massachusetts."

St. Louis Post Dispatch Drops George Will as a Columnist: True story—my great grandfather was the managing editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch. He died before I was born. Anyway, whoever runs that place now, nice work! "The change has been under consideration for several months, but a column published June 5, in which Mr. Will suggested that sexual assault victims on college campuses enjoy a privileged status, made the decision easier. The column was offensive and inaccurate; we apologize for publishing it."